<TITLE>03. Par 10-14</TITLE>L-10 Now, just for a few words of meditation on the Word. And I am kind of a long-winded preacher, I guess. And when I come amongst my Pentecostal brethren years ago, when I just first come from the Baptist church, I used to think I was a real preacher, you know, packed a Bible under my arm. And one day I come among the Pentecostal people, and a Reverend Mr. Daugherty, I'd went down to hear him preach. My, he'd preach till he lost his breath, buckle in his knees, and catch his breath (you could hear him about two blocks away), come back up preaching again. See?
No, I--I was careful what I said about then...?... I'd just come along, and have to kind of go slow. I'm a Southerner to begin with, and slow to start with, and always late. And so, just bear with me a few minutes, and I'll hurry up as quick as I can. But I trust that the Lord will give us a little something here around His Word, that it'll help us all to get closer to Him.

L-11 Now, over in Malachi, the 3rd chapter and the first phase of the 6th verse, I want to take a reading.
For I am the LORD, I change not;...
I want to take a little subject if it'd be pleasing to the Lord, called "The Unchangeable God works in an unexpected way"--"The Unchangeable God Working In An Unexpectable Way."
Now, we are living in a changing time. Everything is changing. Just everything that you can look at and see with your eyes come out of the earth, and it's material and it starts changing.

L-12 A few days ago when I first come to Phoenix, I... My first visit to Phoenix was thirty-five years ago this coming September. And I lived out on the desert on 16th and Henshaw. And I went down there, and the--the house is gone. There's a filling station, and the city sits there. And also the road had been changed from Henshaw to--to Buckeye Road. Why, there'd be no way of ever finding it if you just wouldn't happen to ask around. And that's happened in thirty-five years. Everything is so different.
And I remember going out where the big Salt River Valley project is--a young fellow and I on horses, chasing some burros. Now, it's a park down there. So Phoenix has growed from mountain to mountain. It's filled over the country, and it's a--it's had quite a change. You'd hardly know your way around. When I got here, I think the population was around thirty-five or forty thousand people. Today it's a half a million. How that this place has changed, it goes to show it goes right with the times. It changes just as time changes. Phoenix changes; other places change.

L-13 Then we also know that roads... I noticed that changed. The roads you used to come in on, they don't--they're not there no more. They've gone some other way. You try to follow the trail you once come in, you get lost, run out into the desert somewhere. So the roads has changed; the city's changed; and politics has changed. They're constantly changing, year after year. Politics change, and nations are changing. The nations year by year change. They change their attitude; they change their program.

L-14 And I notice the scenes change as the place... as they cut out the timber, they pull down the mountain, and they... Down in Florida they go out...
You go down, and go along the coast, and first time you go down there, there's not a thing, just coastal water. The next time, they've done made a island out there somewhere, and got new big homes built on it, making man-made islands, putting a big pump down in the sea and pulling up the water and spraying it up, and then level it out with bulldozers and things, and planting a city on top of it and some homes, making islands.
Blasting off the top of the mountains out here, where look like hardly a rabbit could go, and they got--they got houses up on there that's worth hundred thousand dollars.


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